Saritsa Foundation prepares visually impaired girls, women and School children for disasters on eve of International Disaster Reduction day 2013. Saritsa Foundation conducts 4 workshops on Life Saving Education from 12th October to 30th November. Saritsa Foundation conducts a workshop for visually impaired school children, youth and school teachers of Victoria Memorial School for Blind children, Tardeo, Mumbai on 23rd November, 2013.

1. SARITSA FOUNDATION (SARITSA CHARITY TRUST)
A Mobile University For Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change – Mission
National Security.
"Reach to People, Talk to People and Prepare People“
Builds capacity to reduce risks from disasters and climate change by
advocating and practicing. People Centered, People Led, and People Owned
Resilience – Investing in Life Saving Education.

2. Saritsa Foundation prepares visually
impaired girls, women and School
children for disasters on eve of
International Disaster Reduction day
2013.
Saritsa Foundation conducts 4
workshops on Life Saving Education
from 12th October to 30th November.

3. Saritsa Foundation conducts a workshop
for visually impaired school
children, youth and school teachers of
Victoria Memorial School for Blind
children, Tardeo, Mumbai on 23rd
November, 2013.

4. Objectives
1. To develop rapport with disabled to change
their mindset of helplessness and
powerlessness by reaching to them at their
“Door Steps”.
2. To build capacity by imparting life saving
education.
3. Make practical training and mock drills as an
important part of training.
4. Provide Braille books, Audio books, Sign
language handouts and Pictorial books to
strengthen the process.

5. 5. Develop individual willingness to prepare and
make them believe that “I can prepare, I will
prepare and I will protect myself”.
6. Sensitize parents, families, institute
administrations and people in local
governance.
7. Promote public/private partnership for
financial support for sustainability of the
campaign.

6. Methodology
1. Explaining to the participants, how prone are
their areas to manmade and natural disasters.
How they can prepare to minimize losses?
2. Raising awareness for Early warning for
disasters in their regions and their response in
way of moving out from scene of
disasters, access to evacuation and
transportation. It is to be sensitized that all
communication channels be used by persons
with disability for timely response. Their
networking on mobiles with family
members, relatives and control rooms will be
very useful to receive and adhere to early

7. 3. Family and community preparedness to make
provision for their needs in an emergency and
making plans for protecting them as well as
moving out of premises, evacuation and
transportation.
4. Making plans for support of care takers and
evolving Buddy System.
5. Defining routes, transportation and access
to shelters. Guiding them to identified areas
for food, water, medical help, and, use of
latrines.
6. Provisioning for protecting women and girls
from sexual violence.

8. 7. Encourage disabled people to use local
resources to protect and organize periodic
mock drills with practical training for
sustainability.
8. Preparation of guide lines to be made use in
emergencies by local administration as well
as making family and community plans is
important.
9. Persons with disabilities be included, in a
meaningful way, in each and every
meeting, plan and decisions.

9. 10.Buddy System (Jodidar) is important for
persons with disability to plan protection and
movement in disasters especially for visually
impaired people with timely identification of a
care taker for support in disasters is important.
11. Life Saving Education to build their capacity- It
is important that provision for Braille
books, pictorial hand book, Audio books, large
print, use of sign language interpreters is made.
12. Most important part is to develop confidence
amongst disabled that they have a role to
protect themselves and build confidence in
them.

10. The
Participants

12. Practical
Training and
Mock Drills for
Earthquake

13. Taking protection under a table in class room in emergency of
an earthquake.

14. Moving out of Dining Hall and protecting their head.

15. Sleeping in the Hostel.

16. Moving out of a room at 4 A.M. in emergency of earthquake.

17. With the help of Care Taker (in the center) an immediate
Rescue and First Aid team prepared for the school.

18. Immediate Rescue and First Aid with the help of care taker.

19. Immediate Rescue and First Aid with the help of care taker.

20. Evacuation of a small child

21. Practical
Training and
Mock Drills for
Floods

27. Practical
Training and
Mock Drills for
Fire

28. Wrapping a blanket to extinguish a fire .

29. Rolling on the ground to extinguish fire to their clothes.

30. Practical Training
and Mock Drills for
Terrorism and
Chemical Hazards

31. Response to a terrorist fire.

32. Response to a Bomb Blast

33. Response to a Chemical threat.

35. Rahul Singh speaks
Rahul Singh one of the youth participant thanks the team
of Saritsa Foundation at the end of the workshop and
comments that with the education and practical training
provided with personal attention to each participant, we
are inspired to protect our self in disasters with immediate
response using material easily available with us.

37. Shiva speaks
Shiva one of the student of class 10th spoke that he is
confident to protect himself with the inputs of information
on various disasters and practical training. He suggested
that such education and practical training should be
organize in Victoria School for Blinds periodically.

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saritsa@vsnl.net OR saritsafoundationindia.in@gmail.com,
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Donation/Support by donors/supporters be sent on name of Saritsa
Foundation(Saritsa Charity Trust) by Cheque/Draft to Corporation
Bank, Mumbai Worli Branch India. SB Account No. 017400101011299.
IFSC : CORP0000174. OR

39. Transfer of the Donation/Support on name of Prof. Smita
Kadam, Executive Director through Western Union Money
Transfer,
Mumbai India.
Address for Western Union Money Transfer –Prof. Smita Kadam
National HQ –
Flat No.-3, Pankaj CHS, S R Keer Marg, Bhandar Lane, Mahim
West, Mumbai – 400016.
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